News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Unilever and Walmart are hoping to drive increased production of certified sustainable palm oil, as they unveiled new purchasing commitments at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual meeting in Singapore last week.
Using tagatose to sweeten food and drink products has taken a step forward as Korean scientists report the ‘first quantitative data on the relationship between the sweetness of tagatose and sucrose over a range of sweetness levels commonly encountered in...
European farming unions have rejected proposals by the new Cypriot presidency of the European Commissions to cut €50bn from the initial proposal on the CAP budget 2014-2020.
The energy drink market is the fastest growing segment of the European soft drinks industry, so how are newcomers looking to get in on the action?
Nestlé's $11.85bn (€9bn) acquisition of Pfizer Nutrition has been given the go-ahead by anti-trust authorities in China – taking the “strategic” takeover a step closer to completion.
Glanbia has unveiled a €21m whey protein isolate (WPI) investment at its Dairy Ingredients Ireland (DII) Ballyragget facility – the Irish dairy giant’s latest expansion effort driven by the up-coming milk quota abolition.
Unitherm Food Systems has developed a healthier, faster and more sustainable process for industrial food smoking applications using infra-red cooking.
A scandal has erupted in Russia over the revelation that prisoners were fed pork contaminated with African swine fever.
A blend of spinach and spring mix has been linked to an outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 which has so far sickened 16 people.
Nisin, a common food preservative, could slow or stop the development of certain types of cancer, according to new research.
An EU funded project is aiming to deliver an alternative technology for the dehydration of heat sensitive food through variable frequency microwave and vacuum drying.
DISPATCHES FROM INTERBEV 2012, LAS VEGAS
Speaking to BeverageDaily.com at InterBev in Las Vegas, Euromonitor International analysts Claire Moulin and Jonas Feliciano characterize the world’s shifting taste in soft drinks in art history terms.
Consumption of soy products does not prevent the onset of hot flushes and night sweats in women entering menopause, according to new research data.
A snack bar next to the Musée de Louvre in Paris will be the site of the first outlet selling products in edible packaging from WikiCell Designs, the company behind the concept.